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Scenes In Movie Teasers That Aren't Shown In The Movie Itself

From Mewtwo Strikes Back to Swords of Justice, what's up with that? And a BW commercial showed Pikachu being caught by a net from Team Rocket unlike the metallic net they had in the actual episode. Trip and Ash's battle was also very different in setting.

Also, @Atreyu: You mentioned that but no the Lugia vs Ho-oh scene? I mean, at least Ash vs Evil Ash could be chalked up to an early bit of the story involving Zoroark that got scrapped. The GS birds have no excuse.

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The first Japanese Trailers rarely use footage that's actually in the movies.

I can think of two reasons why. The first being that trailers are put out while the movie is still in Production, so the scenes and animation used are subject to change. They might have a general idea of what would happen from scripts and storyboards but change the details somewhere down the line. That's most obvious in Movie 1 which went through several rewrites before the Mewtwo plot. Movie 4 went through similar things.

The other reason is a bit more simple; for dramatic tension. That's probably why we saw Evil Ash in Movie 13's trailer.

One thing I don't get: one not-scene in M01 had TR on what looks like the Subspace Gunship (or to be more accurate a lookalike). What would THAT be like in the final movie? Some weapon to take down Mewtwo (and failing)?

Also, that M07 trailer apparantely had a scene with Rayquaza and Ash fighting Deoxys in space. Had Deoxys been the villain, I would see that as some epic final battle for Earth (but I guess they didn't think they had enough evil-looking mons to infect with misunderstooditus).

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Lol I remember they changed a BUNCH in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew. xDD There was one scene where Lucario was covered in scratches, and Mew physically teleporting Pikachu away...and the Tree of Beginning looked more rock like. Part of me wanted to see this movie. xD

That Ho-Oh vs Lugia thing wasn't even shown to be a movie scene. It was specifically made to just tease the fact that a new movie was being made. It wasn't just like during a trailer, where yes, some scenes in theatrical trailers get cut and aren't in the movie.

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Also, @Atreyu: You mentioned that but no the Lugia vs Ho-oh scene? I mean, at least Ash vs Evil Ash could be chalked up to an early bit of the story involving Zoroark that got scrapped. The GS birds have no excuse.

Actually, yes they do.

The movie starred Zoroark.

The "Illusion Fox" Pokemon.

The scene of Lugia and Ho-oh was an illusion.

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Movie 1 was originally supposed to be an Epilogue for the entire Series.

Nope. The original plan was for the series to run a year and a half. The movie would be screened during the latter parts of the series' run, but it'd still be going on at the time.

Originally Posted by An00bis

Movie 4 originally didn't have Celebi in it. That was supposed to be for the anime.

Also wrong. The anime writing staff was told to drop their "Celebi-in-the-GS-ball" plot because Celebi was going to be in movie 4, and they wanted to debut it there. The GS Ball was gone from the series quite a while before movie 3 was even screened, no work had been done on movie 4 at that point.

You also seem to confuse "the writers brainstorm somewhat to come up with a plot for the next movie" as "the movies go through several heavy rewrites".

Aside from everything in the first movie's first teaser trailer, I remember that the third movie's preview had a scene where it shows a shadowed Mewtwo standing outside a cave. And though this may not count, this was on the official Japanese website for the eighth movie. For some reason, Mewtwo had a bio on the website. Far as I can remember, I saw no cameo appearance from Mewtwo whatsoever.

Wow, that looked incredible. It's weird because the beta previews to the Movies almost always look better than the actual films themselves. Makes you wonder what the writers originally planned for each movie (Movie 1, 3 and 10 specifically). I wish they would give an insight on what was to be before they changed ideas and plots etc (such as when the GS Ball plot was explained).

p.s, before Mewtwo Returns I imagine this was going to be his follow up. Johto lacked quite a few Legendaries, and Mewtwo was incredibly popular still at that time so it would have been awesome for him to return in an actual movie instead of a special.

Just out of curiousity, how did you find it? I looked all over.

Pure nonsense.

Really? Fair enough. I'm not doubting you but just wondering how you know for definite? I can't find the original interviews and such, but I did find a site that said the same rumours I heard here.

Wow, that looked incredible. It's weird because the beta previews to the Movies almost always look better than the actual films themselves. Makes you wonder what the writers originally planned for each movie (Movie 1, 3 and 10 specifically). I wish they would give an insight on what was to be before they changed ideas and plots etc (such as when the GS Ball plot was explained).

Not a whole lot. This trailer was never meant to be all that representative of the movie - it dates back to just half a year before it premiered, and it ends with a silhouette of Entei and the full title of the movie, complete with namedrops of Entei and the Unknown. The first trailers are always just some mostly unrelated action scenes to get you hyped about the idea of a new movie.

Originally Posted by Haunter227

Just out of curiousity, how did you find it? I looked all over.

It's on the 2007 DVD box, alongside most other early trailers for the fist 9 movies.

Originally Posted by Haunter227

Really? Fair enough. I'm not doubting you but just wondering how you know for definite? I can't find the original interviews and such, but I did find a site that said the same rumours I heard here.

That's just some silly person overanalyzing the trailer and making up some crap. They didn't throw out the entire movie and make a new one from scratch in half a year. There's no reason to put way weight on any such thing when the entire argument essentially boils down to "I think that maybe this might be logical", as well as some "supposedly" and "perhaps" statements with no further evidence behind them than that.